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> (it's pretty much lost already, isn't it?) Not even close. Look at satellite imaging. Not only is the Amazon far from lost, the jungles in Africa/Borneo/PN
by A_D_E_P_T 3mo ago
> (it's pretty much lost already, isn't it?)
Not even close. Look at satellite imaging.
Not only is the Amazon far from lost, the jungles in Africa/Borneo/PNG all look to be doing surprisingly okay.
- w4yai 3mo agoIt still got damaged a lot : https://www.maapprogram.org/amazon-tipping-point/ https://www.maapprogram.org/amazon-tipping-point/
- palata 3mo agoThe theory is that it can reach a point where it won't be able to survive, and therefore it will die. We are around that limit. It may well be that it has already passed it and therefore it will die. I didn't mean "it is not there anymore", I meant "we won't be able to preserve it, it may already be too late for that".
- A_D_E_P_T 3mo agoWhere can I find details on this theory?
- palata 3mo agohttps://www.stockholmresilience.org/research/planetary-boundaries.html https://www.stockholmresilience.org/research/planetary-bound...
- xyzsparetimexyz 3mo agoHow is the Amazon going to die? Don't plants kinda like co2? Do you think it'll just become a desert somehow or something?
- wolvoleo 3mo agoDeforestation causes more extreme weather like floods and landslides which also remove fertile soil, and trees don't regenerate quickly enough to prevent that from happening. And global warming also increases weather instability at a rate nature can't adapt to. So even the existing forests will have a harder time.
- ben_w 3mo agoPlants need a lot of things, not just CO2; what they are limited by varies from case to case, and conversion to farmland can cause permanent damage which may indeed turn it into a desert. Fortunately, careful manipulation can reverse desertification.